Month: June 2016
A Design False Positive? Applying the Design Filter in Archaeology
A case of mistaking geology for intelligent design, with some nuance.
Medicine and Our “Perfect” Anatomy
What Diogo and Molnar seem to want is a metric with The Human Body as God Would (or Should) Have Made It at one end of the measuring stick.
Better Babies Through Evolution? Richard Weikart on the Siren Song of Transhumanism
The fact that all this is so far technological fantasy may be its lone saving grace.
Watson’s Goof — What We Should Really Fear from AI
It was a telling response, revealing the idiot inside the savant.
On Prebiotic Chemistry, Synthetic Chemist James Tour Urges an Admission of Ignorance
Taking aim at biologists who assume the matter of life from nonlife is well in hand, Tour sets out this way.